The individual has not yet been avowed — the formal process in Britain by which an intelligence or security figure’s identity is publicly acknowledged — as routine security considerations are still being worked through.

The U.S. government also carried out a seizure of $52.8 million from 52 wallets connected to the platform.

Veradigm said access was limited to a specific interface, and did not impact the company’s broader environment such as its networks, servers or databases. The incident did not result in operational disruptions, the company added.

Ukraine’s prosecutor general, Ruslan Kravchenko, resigned this week over allegations that officials in his office took bribes to shield scam call centers from law enforcement.

Malone Lam was indicted on scamming charges in September 2024 after drawing law enforcement scrutiny for parlaying stolen crypto into lavish Hamptons vacations, cars and private jets.

A Russian web developer who played a role in a multimillion-dollar bank account takeover scheme has been extradited to the U.S. to face an indictment.

French authorities detained an 18-year-old suspected member of the ZeroBytes hacking group over cyberattacks against the country's tax authority and other organizations.

A municipal utility in Bavaria is recovering from a cyberattack that encrypted its internal IT systems but did not affect water and electricity services.

Another trove of data from Berlin's government has appeared online, authorities said. Germany's information security agency separately warned about the Rhysida cybercrime group.

The U.S. Department of Justice and the U.K.'s National Crime Agency and Crown Prosecutor signed a memorandum to cooperate on cases involving Southeast Asian scam operations.

In its first annual assessment, published Friday, the City of London Police said victims reported losing £6.3 million ($8.5 million) to account hacks in the year ending March 31, up from £1.2 million ($1.6 million) a year earlier.

Amir Yaryab is the leader of the IRGC's cyber unit and oversees hacker groups such as the CyberAv3ngers, the State Department said in posting a reward for information about him.

In a joint advisory released Thursday, the G7 Cyber Security Working Group and the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, CISA, said organizations should begin moving to post-quantum cryptography now.

Sealed court information and sensitive personal data were exposed in a breach of a Thomson Reuters records platform affecting courts in at least 12 U.S. states, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Canada.

Searzhudin Tamirlanovich Aktulaev appeared in a San Francisco federal court on Monday after being arrested in Cyprus in May 2025 and extradited to the U.S. last week.

The healthcare data company Aesto informed federal regulators this week that more than 9.5 million people had sensitive information leaked during a cyberattack last December.

The group, which calls itself VantaCore, has targeted at least seven known victims, Russian cybersecurity firm F6 said in a report published this week.

Hackers reportedly gained access to payment accounts used by two Russian fundraising projects supporting Ukrainians and political prisoners, exposing donor email addresses and limited payment card information.

U.S. and European authorities disrupted the long-running botnet Sality, turning the malware’s peer-to-peer architecture against itself to cut thousands of infected computers off from operators.

Cybercriminals breached company data and made an extortion attempt with it, Houston-based Nutex Health said in a filing with federal regulators.